The War That Never Ended

The feed does not have to convince you your neighbor is evil. It only has to convince you that knowing him does not count, that your own senses cannot be trusted.

As of June 30 the federal government had approved about $9.7 billion total for Helene. That is about 16 percent of what the storm cost. Compare that to past disasters. After Hurricane Sandy, federal aid covered about 78 percent of the damage. After Katrina, about 73 percent.

The worst case is not that we fail to solve these problems. It is that we retain the technical ability to solve them and lose the collective ability to decide to.

We did not lose the ability to talk to each other. We lost the ability to find each other. We lost what it means to actually be a neighbor, or to be a part of a community.

"Our algorithms exploit the human brain's attraction to divisiveness." -Internal Facebook Presentation, 2018.